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From an AP article on Tai Chi and Yoga...
A friend, CJM, has been encouraging me to try tai chi for my LBb, and improving the general stiffness that accompanies the disease. I was pretty sure she was right--just haven't carved out the time for it. Reading this convinces me that I must take this up in the next year--I have enough balance issues without letting my golden years complicate them!
But I survived 24 hours of conference with about 3 hours of massage work, so I am too wiped to think about tai chi or anything else.
From an AP Article:
http://my.ev1.net/english/news/newsarticle.asp?articleID=40442926&subject=health
Tai chi, a Chinese exercise that focuses on slow, fluid movements, is believed to have originated around the 12th century. Some scholars have traced the origins of yoga back 5,000 years.
The idea that tai chi and yoga (which promote increased flexibility, toned muscles and better concentration) is particularly beneficial to older people isn't new. But it's taken a while to convince people to give it a try.
A 1996 study by Dr. Steven L. Wolf of the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta found that older people who took part in a 15-week tai chi program reduced their risk of falling by more than 47 percent.
Wolf, who studied 200 people age 70 and older, also found those who practiced tai chi took more deliberate steps and walked slightly more slowly compared to those who didn't take the class.
"The tai chi group seemed to have more confidence," Wolf said at the time. "They had an increased sense of being able to do all that they would like to do."
But I survived 24 hours of conference with about 3 hours of massage work, so I am too wiped to think about tai chi or anything else.
From an AP Article:
http://my.ev1.net/english/news/newsarticle.asp?articleID=40442926&subject=health
Tai chi, a Chinese exercise that focuses on slow, fluid movements, is believed to have originated around the 12th century. Some scholars have traced the origins of yoga back 5,000 years.
The idea that tai chi and yoga (which promote increased flexibility, toned muscles and better concentration) is particularly beneficial to older people isn't new. But it's taken a while to convince people to give it a try.
A 1996 study by Dr. Steven L. Wolf of the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta found that older people who took part in a 15-week tai chi program reduced their risk of falling by more than 47 percent.
Wolf, who studied 200 people age 70 and older, also found those who practiced tai chi took more deliberate steps and walked slightly more slowly compared to those who didn't take the class.
"The tai chi group seemed to have more confidence," Wolf said at the time. "They had an increased sense of being able to do all that they would like to do."